Cultures of Compunction in the Medieval World
by Graham Williams, Charlotte Steenbrugge
1st Edition
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781788313445 |
| eText ISBN | 9781350150393 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publishing Year | 2021 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 280 |
Cultures of Compunction in the Medieval World, 1st Edition, investigates how remorse and penitential sorrow operated in medieval European Christianity. Within medieval religious practice, compunction held a key confessional role, serving as the primary means for an affective sinner to gain redemption.
The volume explores how this emotion was experienced, expressed, and performed across medieval society. It integrates perspectives from history, philosophy, art history, literary studies, performance studies, and linguistics to trace the idealization of penitential feeling.
Published in the New Directions in Medieval Studies series, this textbook offers college audiences an interdisciplinary inquiry into the cultural and theological dimensions of medieval remorse.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Crying out with the Compunction of the Prodigal Son: Byzantine Hymns, Liturgical Emotions and Icons of Repentance, Andrew Mellas (St Andrew's Theological College, Australia)
Chapter 2: Repenting in their Own Words: Old English Vocabulary for Compunction, Contrition, and Penitence, Daria Izdebska (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
Chapter 3: A Concept with Relevance? Compunction in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature, Roland Scheel (University of Gottingen, Germany)
Chapter 4: William of Auvergne and Compunction: Describing the World through Metaphors, Béatrice Delaurenti
Chapter 5: Sea-Water in Flame: Compunction in the Lambeth and Trinity Homilies, Ayoush Lazikani (University of Oxford, UK)
Chapter 6: The Expressions of Remorse in Old and Middle French Literature, Corinne Denoyelle (University of Grenoble-Alpes, France) and translated by Emily Reed
Chapter 7: Peter’s Three Tears, Véronique Plesch (Colby College, USA)
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